Sleeping Beauties
In this spectacular New York Times bestselling father/son collaboration that "barrels along like a freight train" (Publishers Weekly), Stephen King and Owen King tell the highest of high-stakes stories: what might happen if women disappear.
Sleeping Beauties explores a world in which an otherworldly phenomenon causes all women to fall asleep, enveloped in cocoon-like gauze. As they sleep, they go to another place. If they’re awakened or the gauze wrapping their bodies is disturbed, the women become feral and spectacularly violent. As the men are left to their increasingly primal devices, the question arises: Is the world a better place without them?
In the small town of Dooling, the women have gone to sleep, leaving the men to their own devices. Eve Black, a mysterious woman who seems to be immune to the sleeping disease, appears in the town, raising questions and suspicion. Can Eve provide answers, or is she leading the men further into chaos?
Sleeping Beauties is a richly allegorical novel that wrestles with gender, power, and the balance of humanity versus primal instincts. This gripping and vivid novel from the master of suspense and his son is sure to captivate readers.
In this spectacular New York Times bestselling father/son collaboration that "barrels along like a freight train" (Publishers Weekly), Stephen King and Owen King tell the highest of high-stakes stories: what might happen if women disappear.
Sleeping Beauties explores a world in which an otherworldly phenomenon causes all women to fall asleep, enveloped in cocoon-like gauze. As they sleep, they go to another place. If they’re awakened or the gauze wrapping their bodies is disturbed, the women become feral and spectacularly violent. As the men are left to their increasingly primal devices, the question arises: Is the world a better place without them?
In the small town of Dooling, the women have gone to sleep, leaving the men to their own devices. Eve Black, a mysterious woman who seems to be immune to the sleeping disease, appears in the town, raising questions and suspicion. Can Eve provide answers, or is she leading the men further into chaos?
Sleeping Beauties is a richly allegorical novel that wrestles with gender, power, and the balance of humanity versus primal instincts. This gripping and vivid novel from the master of suspense and his son is sure to captivate readers.
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In this spectacular New York Times bestselling father/son collaboration that "barrels along like a freight train" (Publishers Weekly), Stephen King and Owen King tell the highest of high-stakes stories: what might happen if women disappear.
Sleeping Beauties explores a world in which an otherworldly phenomenon causes all women to fall asleep, enveloped in cocoon-like gauze. As they sleep, they go to another place. If they’re awakened or the gauze wrapping their bodies is disturbed, the women become feral and spectacularly violent. As the men are left to their increasingly primal devices, the question arises: Is the world a better place without them?
In the small town of Dooling, the women have gone to sleep, leaving the men to their own devices. Eve Black, a mysterious woman who seems to be immune to the sleeping disease, appears in the town, raising questions and suspicion. Can Eve provide answers, or is she leading the men further into chaos?
Sleeping Beauties is a richly allegorical novel that wrestles with gender, power, and the balance of humanity versus primal instincts. This gripping and vivid novel from the master of suspense and his son is sure to captivate readers.
